Coaches Injuries in practice - how do you handle?

[GymCAMom]

As a parent, I'm curious to know from the coaches here - if a gymnast is injured in practice, do you as a coach do any follow-up afterward or do you let the family come to you with updates?

 

[raenndrops]

It depends on how bad the injury seems. Most of our gymnasts' injuries are minor, and they will return at the next practice with something wrapped and a list of restrictions.
Most of the time, the parents will update us as soon as they know something for more serious injuries, but if we don't hear anything before the next practice at the latest (and the gymnast isn't there), we do reach out. We don't want to be intrusive early on because the parent needs to be there for their gymnast, and that's why we wait.
While a gymnast is out for an injury (or for a bad concussion that happened at school that keeps a gymnast not only out of the gym, but also out of school for an extended period of time), we do keep in contact with the parent for periodic updates.